The rice is a mixture of corn kernels and white rice, the dish is a large pot of bacon stir-fried with garlic sprouts, and the wine is a low-alcohol rice dumpling wine, which is typical of the farmhouse flavor. It's been a long time since I've eaten farmhouse dishes like this, and I feel better than the ones made by the chef at home, and before I know it, I eat a lot and drink a lot of wine.

Guo Hongjin has also been released and has eaten with us.

Guo Xingye and the two young men changed their previous hostile attitude, and became very attentive, constantly persuading me to eat and drink.

"It turns out that Xiang Tianwen is really an immortal, it's really amazing."

"Xiaodao turned out to be an apprentice who asked the sky, and he would have been fine if he said it earlier. With so many misunderstandings, it doesn't hurt where you hit your head with snow on your head, right? ”

"Guo Hongjin is also an apprentice of Xiang Tianwen, and he has been with him for twelve or ten years, but he still hasn't learned anything, and he is stupid."

Chen ...... Big brother, the village chief said that you can do immortal magic, and you will turn into a sword like lightning, we want to ...... I want to worship you as a teacher, I don't know if it's okay? ”

“……”

Everyone talked about some anecdotes asked by Xiang Tian for a while, some legends in the village for a while, and then they slapped my ass vigorously, and finally the two young men said that they wanted to worship me as a teacher.

It turned out that the two young men were both nephews of Guoxingye, and Guoxingye also followed and said: "Generation after generation of our Yuanbao Village have lived in this mountain, and no one has seen the outside world. This is also a rule that has been passed down from generation to generation, and there is really no way. But it's been so long now, it's the twenty-first century, and the emperor hasn't been there for hundreds of years. So I've been thinking for a long time that our rules should be changed. ”

"That's as it should be." I said casually.

"So I thought, young people nowadays should go out and see it." Guoxingye said, "Now these two young people listen to the cleverness, if you take them as apprentices and take them out to break in, I will be much more relieved to have you look at them." ”

I was surprised and said, "You want me to take them out?" ”

Guoxing said: "Yes. They don't understand anything, they don't know anything, but fortunately they are still more honest and obedient. If you take them as apprentices, no matter what you do, they will definitely listen to you. If they dare to say a word, you can just beat them. I knew at a glance that although you were young, you must have seen the world. With you watching them, I'm relieved. ”

With that, the two young men got up from their seats, walked to the side and knelt down in unison, saying, "Apprentice, meet Master." ”

said that he kowtowed again and again.

I hurriedly reached out to help the two of them and said, "What age is it now?" From time to time, I apprenticed. ”

The two young men were on their knees, refusing to stand up no matter how hard I tried.

Guoxing said: "We don't care what is fashionable outside, our rule is to be a teacher for one day and a father for life, whether you treat them as apprentices or sons, please help take care of them." ”

As he spoke, Guoxingye also stood up, with tears in his eyes, and even knelt down.

Everyone is already almost seventy years old, how dare I be this? Hurriedly held on to Guoxingye and said, "Okay, okay, I promise you." ”

The two young people were overjoyed, and they kowtowed more than a dozen times in a row, saying, "Thank you, Master, thank you, Master!" ”

I said, "You don't need to call me Master, I'm older than you, just call me Brother Dao." ”

"Yes, Brother Dao!" The two young men said happily.

"What is it?!" Guoxingye shouted, "There are no rules at all, call Master!" ”

The two young men were very frightened and hurriedly said, "Yes, I'm sorry, Master! ”

As he spoke, he kowtowed again and again.

I had no choice but to go with them. Helped them up and asked for their names, the one with slightly curly hair was called Guo Hongwen, who was the elder brother, and the one with short shaved hair was called Guo Hongyou, the younger brother, and both of them looked very simple and kind.

Guoxingye looked at Guo Hongjin and said to the two brothers: "In the future, Hongjin will be your uncle, you must respect him, do you know?" ”

"Uncle?" The two brothers glanced at Guo Hongjin, their faces full of disdain. They and Guo Hongjin are both "Hong" generations, and now they are a generation shorter for no reason, and the other party is still a person who they have always looked down on, so they are very unhappy.

"What are you looking at?" Guoxing said loudly, "Seniority is seniority, and it must not be messed up, have you heard?" ”

"Yes—" the two brothers said reluctantly.

Guo Hongjin said: "Actually...... I never officially worshipped Master as Master, but after my parents died, Master took me in, and I called him Master. ”

The two brothers were overjoyed and said, "Then we don't need to call you uncle?" ”

Guo Hongjin looked at me and said, "I also worship you as a teacher, right?" ”

Without waiting for me to speak, he immediately knelt down and kowtowed.

I helped Guo Hongjin up and said, "Since this is the case, I will promise you." From today on, Guo Hongjin is the senior brother, Guo Hongwen is the second senior brother, and Guo Hongyou is the junior brother. In the future, you should love each other, support each other, and help each other. ”

"Yes." The three of them happily agreed.

By this time, when it was already completely dark, Guoxing lit the kerosene lamp, went back to the inner room, and came out after a while, still holding the kerosene lamp in his right hand and a rusty short sword in his left hand, which was about a foot long.

Guoxing sat down in his place, handed me the short sword, and said, "Today, the two nephews are apprentices, and I am very grateful to you for agreeing to take them out to see the world." There is no greeting gift in the countryside, this thing is handed down by our ancestors, I hope you don't dislike it. ”

I hurriedly excused myself and said, "This is your heirloom, I can't ask for it." ”

Guoxing said: "It's useless for us to hold this thing, you can just take it and play with it." I heard that this was given to our ancestors by Emperor Jianwen back then, and it should be a good thing. ”

Of course, I can't ask for it anymore, and I insist on not wanting it.

Guoxingye insisted on stuffing the short sword into my arms, and said: "In the future, these two stinky boys will trouble you to take care of them a lot, as long as they have a little talent, then you are the great benefactor of our family, what is this little thing?" Alas, in fact, it is all to blame for our stubbornness, hundreds of years, who have been trapped in this mountain. If we had opened our minds earlier, why would we still be like this? We've been isolated from the world for hundreds of years, and it's not until today that we think about going out, and hopefully it's not too late. ”

I really couldn't refuse, so I had to accept the gift of Guoxing.

"By the way, there's one more thing." Guoxingye suddenly thought about it again, stood up again, and this time did not even take the kerosene lamp, and turned into the inner room.

After a while, Guoxingye came out with another thing in his hand.

Guoxingye handed me the thing and said, "This thing was found under his pillow when I cleaned up his house after Xiang Tianwen died." Ask the heavens if it's your master, and you can keep it as a souvenir. ”

I took it and looked at it, and it was a swarthy pocket, the size of a palm, with no pattern or handwriting on it. There is a strap at the mouth of the bag, and as soon as you pull the strap, the mouth of the bag will be tightened.

I opened the bag and dug in for a long time, it was empty, there was nothing.

"Ah, I see!" Guo Hongjin shouted, "This is Master's treasure, called Qiankun Bag!" ”

"Qiankun bag?" I repeated it strangely. It's a pretty good name, but it doesn't seem to be very useful.

Guo Hongjin said: "It's a Qiankun bag, which can hold a lot of things." No matter how big or heavy the things are, they can all be thrown inside, and they can be taken out at any time when they need to be used, which is very convenient. ”

"So powerful?" I couldn't help but be surprised and delighted.

Guo Hongjin pointed to a few potatoes on the stove, and then pointed to the black Qiankun bag, and said: "Lang Lang Qiankun, the sun and the moon are the same day, Qiankun bag, collect!" ”

A few cooked potatoes on the stovetop were gone.

Guo Hongjin opened the mouth of the bag in my hand and said: "Lang Lang Qiankun, the sun and the moon are the same day, Qiankun bag, out!" ”

A few potatoes appeared silently in their original positions.

"Good!" Everyone in the room applauded.

Guo Hongjin said: "If we had this thing before, we could put that coffin in this Qiankun bag, and we didn't need to ask so many people for help." No matter how many things are loaded in it, it always looks like it is empty, it has no weight at all, and it is easy to carry on your body. Once, I saw Master put a year in it and carry it across a suspension bridge. ”